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You have until end of day on Tuesday, April 5, to take our 2022 chapter survey. Whether or not you are a chapter member, a NPSOT member, or a non-member native plant enthusiast, we’d like your input to our 7-question chapter survey. Your responses will help line up interesting speakers and plan field trips in the coming year.
The survey does NOT collect any identifying information unless you choose to supply your email address in the very last question.
To take the survey, click on NPSOT-Wilco Survey March 2022. Be sure to hit the Submit button at the bottom of the form to record your responses.
The survey closes on April 5, 2022. Survey results will be presented in a future chapter meeting.
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— by Beth Erwin
NPSOT-Williamson County’s Native Plant Sale on Saturday, March 26th, turned out perfectly in so many ways. The weather was sunny and mild, our plant vendors showed up with tons of gorgeous native plants, and the volunteers were cheerful and hard-working. Then the customers showed up, and boy, did they show up!
Video by Phillip Pensabene.
Early bird shoppers came with the published plant list in hand. We had lots of wonderful native plants for everything from pollinators to songbirds to humans. We had trees, shrubs, flowering perennials and annuals, milkweeds, vines, grasses, sedges, and groundcovers. We had a great variety, and everyone enjoyed finding what they wanted.
Photo by Andy Goerdel.
Our volunteers helped customers choose a plant, find a specific plant, and told them more about their plant. They answered landscaping questions, carried plants, held customers’ plants while they went back for more and more plants. Boxes full of plants were ticketed, taken to a cashier’s table, and loaded into vehicles.
It was exciting! It went so smoothly, in large part to the pre-sale planning, prep work, training and practice our team leaders and volunteer workers did. Once sale day dawned, more terrific volunteers poured in. We were thrilled to have the Round Rock High School Plant Club members return to run our plant holding area. We were doubly lucky to have a group of enthusiastic students from Southwestern University’s Alpha Phi Omega chapter and instructors assisting this time. Our chapter volunteers really enjoyed interacting with the students, and best of all, several students from both groups expressed a desire to do it again.
Photo by Cindy Chrisler.
We appreciate all the pots customers donated for our vendors to reuse to grow more beneficial native plants.
Our plant sale proceeds help fund our various nonprofit programs promoting the use of Texas native plants. Our primary focus is Williamson County, where we utilize the plant sale profits on community-enriching native plant-related projects.
Thank you to everyone for your kind-hearted support. Beth Erwin and Randy Pensabene
Photo by Phillip Pensabene. Click to get the full effect!
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— by Marilyn Perz
Hope to see you at our workday at the Landfill Pollinator Garden on Saturday, April 2, 2022 from 9am to noon. Come help members of NPSOT and the Good Water Master Naturalists weed and cut back the plants on our bluebonnet covered berm. Bring your own cutting and digging tools and dress for the weather. Water and snacks will be provided.
If you have questions, contact Marilyn Perz using the form at this link.
The Williamson County Pollinator Garden is a collaboration of the NPSOT-Wilco chapter, Good Water Master Naturalists, and Williamson County Waste Management, located at the entrance to the Williamson County Landfill, at the corner of FM 1660 and Landfill Road, in Hutto, TX.
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